"Dad?!" Xander exclaimed as he saw the handsome, tall, muscular man with short jet black hair and blue eyes that were as clear as the sky.
"Hello Xander. I know you–"
"Gba!*
Xander slammed the door shut in front of the man's face, turned around and rested his back on the door and slid down to sit on the floor. He crossed his hands and rested his face on his knees which was curled up.
'Why is he here? What does he want? He left us a year ago and came back now?' while his mind was racing with these thoughts his dad's voice came from behind the door.
"Xander I know i haven't contacted you and your mother since a year ago and i have a reason."
"Would you at least give me a chance to explain myself?" The man asked from behind the door.
Xander didn't say anything and began pondering about this situation.
'Maybe he didn't leave?' immediately this thought crossed his mind he sighed and stood up to look at the door for a few seconds.
After five seconds he finally opened the door reluctantly and his dad smiled at him.
"Xan–"
"No... Don't call my name till you've explained yourself." Xander said and let his dad into the house.
Both of them didn't say anything and just went to sit on the couches in the sitting room.
Xander stared at his dad with a 'not happy' expression while his dad was just looking around as if fascinated.
"So Xander, how is school going?"
Xander's brows furrowed at the question and his lips curved downwards as he said, "After a year, you left nothing but a single note and now you've come back to ask me how I'm doing. If you can't explain to me where you have been, what you have been doing and why you didn't message or call, you will have to leave immediately." Xander said as calm as he can be. His heart was beating fast, his every being was screaming at him to just slap this man but no, he's more reasonable than that.
"Sigh... What I'm about to tell you, you might not believe it but it's true. I am the leader of Terrox." His father said, looking at Xander with a nonchalant expression and so was Xander's expression too.
He couldn't believe what this man was saying. 'Terrox?! The group of people that are going around killing people.' Xander thought as he recalled the Information Harris shared with him.
The Terrox were a group of terrorists who hasn't been seen till this day. They leave their symbol and group name in some places along with bodies of humans that were killed.
The Government are still tracking the Terrox group till this day. Xander looked at his dad warily and thought that he didn't look like a gangster or a killer, but so much can happen in a year.
"The Terrox huh? Do you have any proof?" Xander squinted his eyes and asked, hoping that his father was joking.
His father chuckled a little before showing him his wrist; there were two triangles that faced opposite sides. The triangles were overlapping each other ant there was an 'X' symbol in the middle of the triangles.
Xander's eyes were widened in shock as he just found out his dad is the leader of a group of murderers. This was even a bigger shock than when he found out that his mom now is not his real mom.
"I can't believe this. My dad is a killer, is he here to kill me too?" He mumbled as he looked at his dad in horror before looking back down and continue his rambling.
His dad, seeing his son's reaction smiled and relaxed on the chair before he started explaining.
"I'm not here to harm you. In fact, I'm here to help you." He said, still putting on his smile.
Xander looked back up still fridgeting in anger as he said with a shaky voice, "W– What c– can you p– possibly help m– me with?"
Xander's dad sighed as he said, "Before that let me tell you a little about the Terrox."
Xander looked at his dad that had a smile as if he was some kind of monster. They were about to talk about criminals... CRIMINALS!!!
"The Terrox are a special group of people who protect other humans from another group known as ghoulshippers. They worship the demons known as ghouls and their job is to bring those ghouls to the physical world to wreak havoc and judge humans..."
Xander just stared at his dad with his mouth wide open, 'What the fuck is this man talking about, protecting humans, demon worshippers, ghouls... Wait I've seen a ghoul in Tokyo ghoul anime, does that mean they're real...'
"...Terrox consist of humans who have super powers and so does the enemy have these powers too, called 'Arcana'. It is the power of past gods that once existed during the dinosaurs time..."
'Now he's talking about super powers. This is just absurd. I feel like I'm going to explode out of anger right now... What has my dad gotten himself into that is making him believe such things.' Xander thought still listening.
"The individuals awaken their arcana when they turn Eighteen and that's why I'm here, your eighteenth birthday is tomorrow. You will awaken your arcana tomo–"
"Hold on a second! You are talking like as if I believe anything you just said. Demon worshippers?! Super powers?! Demons?! Gods?! You are talking rubbish my good man. How about you give me an excuse that is even slightly believable!" Xander raged out loud.
His head was throbbing with pain it was as if something wanted to burst out if him. His heartbeat sped up to the point that he was hearing it.
"But what I am saying is true–"
"I think you should leave now." Xander said, standing up and pointing towards the door.
"But–"
"LEAVE!!!" Xander cut in again, not allowing this man to say anything else.
His dad didn't say anything and just stood up and left, Xander was sure that he'll come back but something weird was wrong with him.
He sat on the couch and his heart continued racing. It was neither like stress nor like excitement but it was similar to fear.
He felt the energy in his body flow away and he collapsed.
As his body touched the bare tiles his heart suddenly stopped beating like that, and so did his headache stop at once... As if it never happened.
Xander seemed to regain his energy as he stood up from the floor, stupified.
"What was that?" He questioned.
It seems like his already weird life was about to get weirder.